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May 2, 2024

Campaign to build new California city accelerates

  • If verified, voters will decide in the fall whether to allow urban development on land currently zoned for agriculture.
    • By JANIE HAR
    Associated Press

    SAN FRANCISCO — A wealthy Silicon Valley-backed campaign to build a green city for up to 400,000 people in the San Francisco Bay Area has submitted what it says are enough signatures to qualify the initiative for the November election.

    The campaign submitted more than 20,000 signatures but would need only about 13,000 valid ones to qualify for the ballot. If verified by Solano County's elections office, voters will decide in the fall whether to allow urban development on land currently zoned for agriculture. The land-use change would be necessary for the development to be built.


     
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